To follow up, here's what I know.

- Ross replied to my e-mail (thanks for making this happen, Martin)
simply saying he can't reply to each individual e-mail as there are
thousands of committers a the ASF.

- MSDN licensing program is complicated. Quoting: "There are problems
with administering a service like this across 5000 people in six
continents when the budget for each individual as to be sourced from
the local countries. If you consider the value of 5000 * $2500 (just
in the ASF, we offer this to many open source projects). Then add the
levels of fraud you might have an indication of how difficult a
process this is and just how manually intensive it is."

- Most importantly, Ross said he's been communicating the above to
board@ and members@ lists -- these lists are only accessible to ASF
members (Uwe, Grant, Hoss, Andrzej, Mike...). If you guys could
forward the progress on this, once it's published on those private
lists, it'd be greatly appreciated. In fact, I don't even know what
Ross said because I can't access those lists as a Lucene PMC member
only.

Dawid

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:
> No,
>
> the same here. It is a long discussion going on about this, it seems to be 
> different for each country you are living in. To me it looks like most people 
> live in a "blacklisted" company (with the blacklist much larger than Trump's).
>
> Uwe
>
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dawid Weiss [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 10:06 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: MSDN subscription renewal
>>
>> I've been trying to get my MSDN subscription renewed (useful for
>> testing on various flavors of Windows) and unfortunately I failed. I
>> didn't hear back from Ross Gardler
>> (https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/donated-
>> licenses/msdn.txt)
>> and Microsoft support doesn't know anything about this donated
>> license.
>>
>> Was anybody successful at getting MSDN access updated (say, since
>> approximately last September)?
>>
>> Dawid
>>
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